White Nationalist Rally Newshttp://snewsi.comChoose Your Newshttp://i.snewsi.com/apple-touch-icon-72-precomposed.pngsnewsi.comhttp://snewsi.comCities across the US have torn down these controversial Confederate monumentshttp://snewsi.com/id/18169704261/Cities-across-the-US-have-torn-down-these-controversial-Confederate-monumentsSat, 17 Feb 2018 12:00:00 -0500Business Insider - Steve Helber/AP This February marks six months since a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia turned violent. One counter-protester, Heather Heyer, died and dozens more sustained injuries after a driver plowed into a crowd. Heyer's homicide reinvigorated a national conversation about the role of Confederate statues, memorials, and plaques in public spaces. According to a recent study by the Southern Poverty Law Center, over 1,500 symbols of the Confederacy stand in public places in the US. Since the Charlottesville incident, more than two dozen cities have removed Civil War-era monuments from plazas, parks, and government buildings or are considering such proposals. Officials from these cities argue that Confederate iconography encourages a revisionist history of the Civil War, during which Confederate states fought for the right to maintain slavery. The movement to rid streets of these monuments may be just starting. Here are 9 cities that have already done away with]]>Republican education bill would radically rewrite 'religious freedom' and license virtually any form of discriminationhttp://snewsi.com/id/18169355693/Republican-education-bill-would-radically-rewrite-religious-freedom-and-license-virtually-any-form-of-discriminationMon, 12 Feb 2018 13:13:20 -0500Raw Story - Consider for a moment this chilling hypothetical. Imagine that the day after last summer's white nationalist rally at the University of Virginia, the leaders of the group that marched through the Charlottesville campus shouting racist and anti-Semitic slogans take themselves instead to the universit...]]>Texas A&M, Prairie View students debate how colleges should approach free-speech conflictshttp://snewsi.com/id/18169326874/Texas-AandM-Prairie-View-students-debate-how-colleges-should-approach-free-speech-conflictsMon, 12 Feb 2018 01:01:12 -0500Bryan College Station Eagle - Six months after Texas A&M University officials canceled a planned white nationalist rally on campus, universities across the country continue to weigh the risks of allowing such events.]]>Tracking Shows Russian Meddling Efforts Evolving Ahead Of 2018 Midtermshttp://snewsi.com/id/18169112010/Tracking-Shows-Russian-Meddling-Efforts-Evolving-Ahead-Of-2018-MidtermsThu, 08 Feb 2018 05:00:54 -0500NPR - Secretary of State Rex Tillerson sounded an alarm this week: The Russians are already meddling in the 2018 midterm elections. "The point is that if their intention is to interfere, they're going to find ways to do that," Tillerson told Fox News. "I think it's important we just continue to say to Russia, look, you think we don't see what you're doing. We do see it, and you need to stop." A new poll shows that a clear majority of Americans believe Russia will try to meddle in the next U.S. election. But Tillerson also noted that Russia's tactics for interfering in U.S. politics are constantly changing. A bipartisan effort is shedding new light on how Russian methods evolve. Hamilton 68 is a project that has been tracking Russian influence networks on Twitter for more than six months, watching as Kremlin-linked bots and social media amplifiers seek to inject themselves into national controversies, like #ReleaseTheMemo, the Charlottesville white nationalist rally and the NFL kneeling c]]>2 convicted on charges from chaotic Kessler press conferencehttp://snewsi.com/id/18168788869/2-convicted-on-charges-from-chaotic-Kessler-press-conferenceFri, 02 Feb 2018 19:13:36 -0500Miami Herald - Two people have been found guilty of charges stemming from a chaotic press conference last summer during which the organizer of a white nationalist rally was chased away by an ?]]>